# Knox Presbyterian Church

Presbyterian church in Hamilton, Ontario.

Source: https://hamiltons.church/churches/knox-presbyterian-waterdown/
Last verified: 2026-10-18

## Service times
- Sunday 10:00 a.m. (Sunday Service)

There is one service each Sunday, all year round, in person and on YouTube. The entrance and parking lot are on the east side of the church, off Church Street; the front doors are no longer used, so come around to the parking-lot entrance. Children's ministry for ages 3 to 11 follows the children's story, and a staffed nursery is available.

## Address
80 Mill Street North, Waterdown, ON L0R 2H0

## Contact
- Phone: 905-689-8115
- Website: https://www.knoxwaterdown.ca
- Email: church.office@knoxwaterdown.ca
- Affiliation: Presbyterian Church in Canada (Presbytery of Hamilton)

## What they believe
Knox Presbyterian Church, a Presbyterian Church in Canada congregation in Waterdown, calls itself 'a community fully alive in Jesus Christ'. It seeks to nurture the hope made real through the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ and the presence of the Spirit of God, sums up its life as 'Hearts United in God's Service', and teaches children to love and follow Jesus as Saviour and Lord.

## What to expect
A greeter welcomes visitors at the parking-lot entrance. The one service is contemporary, with singing, family time, prayer, scripture and preaching, and the church says to come as you are, whether in jeans and a T-shirt or a suit and tie. Children begin in worship and leave after the children's story and song for their own program in the Education Wing. Refreshments and conversation follow in the Gathering Hall.

## About this congregation
Knox Presbyterian Church stands on Mill Street North in Waterdown, with its entrance and parking off Church Street. The congregation's history, written by a member who volunteers with the Flamborough Historical Archives, dates a Presbyterian congregation in Waterdown to 1830, when the Reverend William King of Nelson established one. After the Disruption in the Church of Scotland, Waterdown had two Presbyterian congregations: a Free Church congregation, which built a stone church called Knox on Mill Street in the 1850s, and a Church of Scotland congregation, St. Andrew's, with a frame church on Main Street. The two later united as one congregation, known since then as Knox Church.

The original stone church survives as the Gathering Hall. In 1901 a red-brick sanctuary was built onto its front; the congregation's history records that the cornerstone was laid on 25 June 1901 and the church dedicated on 10 November, and the City's heritage inventory names Stewart McPhie as its architect. A two-storey addition with a kitchen, offices, a library and meeting rooms was dedicated in January 1997. The inventory records that Knox became an independent charge in 1980, and its lead pastor is the Reverend Lea Wilkening.

One contemporary service is held each Sunday at 10:00 a.m., all year round, in person and on YouTube, with children's programs during the service.

## About this listing
Part of Hamiltons.church. These listings cover a growing selection of congregations in Hamilton; they are not yet exhaustive.
Checked against: knoxwaterdown.ca (retrieved 2026-10-18); youtube.com (retrieved 2026-10-18); hamilton.ca (retrieved 2026-10-18); web.archive.org (retrieved 2026-10-18).
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